The Jest Book

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Marianne North, Thomas Rowlandson and John Leech. Some fifteen hundred jokes, retorts and anecdotes collected by the editor of Punch - lawyers, doctors, actors, bishops and the Irish, arranged for the dinner table. Lemon founded the magazine and knew what made a room laugh. This edition is bound with 58 plates of paintings by John Leech, Edmund Blair Leighton and others, dating from 1825 to 1910.